Did they
force you to pay $700 for a 10 year old Glock?
Other than that, I agree with you. The dealers have little incentive in
getting the regs removed because they are more or less all constrained to the same
pool of new and used guns they can sell, and people who want guns will still buy
something... although it easily could be argued that people would buy MORE guns if
the "blockade" wasn't in place.
Although, it also does f**k them up on consignments. There are guns they can
never put on consignment because of the regs, too... so for the shops that do those,
they are getting boned by the regs as well, because they typically won't take in
a gun that they can't show paper for if it isn't compliant. Or they can take those guns in, but
only move them on Gunbroker, and a GB sale is a pain in the ass compared to turning it around
in the store.
-Mike